Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his margin was still rolling up in Minnesota last week, Estes Kefauver was following his hand westward across the U.S. He dropped in at Great Falls, Mont, to shake a few, flew on to Portland for a meeting of his supporters and finally landed in California for a six-day, 33-speech stint in the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. On a busy street in San Francisco the long Kefauver arm snaked up into the window of a big bus and caught the right hand of the startled driver, as Estes said: "I'm Estes Kefauver...
...scientists were disease detectives at work on a medical whodunit that began last month when a physician at the Portland Veterans Administration Hospital phoned the State Board of Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys...
Died. Fred Allen (real name: John Florence Sullivan), 61, radio and TV humorist whose topical, misanthropic wit and acidity reached its peak in the early '40s on the radio show Town Hall Tonight, which included his wife Portland Hoffa and such zany denizens of Allen's Alley as Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy; of a heart attack while walking his dog near midnight on Manhattan's West 57th Street. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Allen lurched onto the vaudeville boards at 17 as one of the most inept jugglers in history, became a comic...
...city of black and white," Saarinen says. To emphasize the play of light and shadow across the broad, 330-ft. façade, he worked out a structural grill that takes its rhythm from the window spacing of surrounding Georgian structures. For his major material Saarinen chose white Portland stone, traditional both in London's official buildings and as ornament on private brick dwellings. To sharpen the black and white contrast, he used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above...